The Perseid Meteor Shower

dacogawa

The Perseids only rise in the North-East sky after midnight, you might see a few beforehand if lucky but much better after 12, and even better towards dawn but cloud will be in by then

johnny osbourne

i'm in galway, just seen a shooting star blasting through the sky, in the east,

wasn't expectin them to be that big


gave me a fright to be honest

Fowler87

Caught a glimpse of four in around 20 mins. Mighty clear skies for a change

Wanderer78

johnny osbourne wrote: »

i'm in galway, just seen a shooting star blasting through the sky, in the east,

wasn't expectin them to be that big


gave me a fright to be honest

iss by any chance?

NomadicGray

Couple of small ones & three biggish streaks in the last ten mins or so. could do with the sky clearing a bit though

Oscar Bravo

Show time has started , 3 nice ones in 5 minutes there (castlebar)

Oscar Bravo

johnny osbourne , saw that one , very nice and bright!

johnny osbourne

Wanderer78 wrote: »

iss by any chance?

no, seen that earlier,


anyway i made my wish

Harry Palmr

Typical! A veil of cloud overhead (Waterford City)

Huntergonzo

Just saw about 10 of them here in Meath, not a bad show so far :-)

_Tombstone_

The Perseid meteor shower — the year's best — is tonight. Here's how to watch it.

NorthStars

spockety wrote: »

Is this blink and you'll miss it kind of stuff, or visible for a few seconds at a time etc?

9.34 pm tomorrow night there's a pass visible for 6 minutes according to the ISS site...

Stinicker

Where should I be looking in relation to the Plough? I'm in South Kerry

kc66

Saw a few huge ones in the space of around 10 mins. Slightly NW direction. Lovely clear skies in kells.

fryup

saw 6 within 10 minutes

better than last night

euser1984

I've seen 4 or 5. Two were big with one being very very big....looked like someone had let off a roman candle....Will there be a lot more after 12 or still just one every 5mins or so.

Will more or less all of them be in the north east after 12? I've never seen a meteor shower before.

pauldry

here in sligo the sky is clear

lots and lots of stars

stared for ages but saw none

i am looking directly up. there are billions of stars but nothing happened and in 3 mins i got a sore neck

efb

Caught one!

euser1984

Stinicker wrote: »

Where should I be looking in relation to the Plough? I'm in South Kerry

To the bright flashing star to the right. I only see about three stars around there including the flashing. Other stars are fairly dull.

euser1984

pauldry wrote: »

here in sligo the sky is clear

lots and lots of stars

stared for ages but saw none

i am looking directly up. there are billions of stars but nothing happened and in 3 mins i got a sore neck

They could be anywhere up to about 12 I think.

pauldry

Just saw 2

the second scared the living out of me

first on nw horizon like a flash

second straight above like a fast flashing bat

ei0675

Just seen at least 15 in last 40 min. Drove out about 2 miles to an old country graveyard car park. Beautiful clear sky lovely view of milky way ( raging didn't have camera) Lo was getting board and tired so just left but amazing viewing. As last few post some long bright streaks and a few dim ones. Also 2 bright flashes.

Pretzill

pauldry wrote: »

here in sligo the sky is clear

lots and lots of stars

stared for ages but saw none

i am looking directly up. there are billions of stars but nothing happened and in 3 mins i got a sore neck

In Sligo too Pauldry crystal clear but cold laying outside - I gave it about 45 minutes saw over 20 and one that flew towards the west and the stream it left behind lasted for a second or two - warming up indoors now may go out a bit later - but it does take patience, a reclining chair or lie with a pillow to help your neck

GhostInTheRuins

Cloud is starting to roll in now in Meath.

I've seen a couple of big ones so I'm not too disappointed.

Call Me Jimmy

went outside for a minute and saw two. havent looked at the starry sky in while, forgot how much more it reveals when ye give yer eyes time to adjust. when I first came outside I was like 'clear sky but not many stars?' then a minute later 'oh, hey universe', then saw two floaters

Knifey Spoony

Cork at the moment:



Some clear skies to the East so managed to see a few, but cloud cover is getting worse.

yorlum11

Oscar Bravo wrote:

Show time has started , 3 nice ones in 5 minutes there (castlebar)

Turn off the lights over there. Light pollution is blocking my view in Westport . Had a good few there. Several in 5 mins.

pauldry

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

went outside for a minute and saw two. havent looked at the starry sky in while, forgot how much more it reveals when ye give yer eyes time to adjust. when I first came outside I was like 'clear sky but not many stars?' then a minute later 'oh, hey universe', then saw two floaters

I just saw clear sky too and thought this is as rare in sligo as the perseid

no doubt waterford whispers will run an apt headline

PukkaStukka

My wife, children and I decamped to the back garden here in Donabate with and excellent clear view of the night sky. We were seeing one bright meteor every 5 minutes and the odd smaller one in between. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the number of satellites going over, which seemed more frequent than the meteors!

fryup

could they collide with satellites or they too high?